Life is a dear thing to all of us but if it came to making a decision to sacrifice your life so that the world could have a better chance at adapting into a lasting world peace, would you yield?
There are plenty of people who have given their lives already, some as soldiers, some as martyrs, some for good and some for bad. Assuming that your own sacrifice would be a "no-brainer" decision and a personal sacrifice which could yield good without a doubt, would you do it? Would you be willing to die for the sake of a more peaceful world?
If you answered "yes" to this question and you believe in life after death, do you realize that sacrificing the idea of your after-death life might help to achieve this same illusive goal of world-wide peace? Are you willing to donate that "life" to help achieve peace on earth now?
2006-12-21 15:32:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes I would do it. and I am practicing it now within the constraints and opportunities of my life.
2006-12-21 21:18:44 · answer #1 · answered by Dwain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Lots have done so thinking their death would indeed yield good & we can see some have taken others lives in the same belief.
I don't see why such a sacrifice would make a better world, & besides If a better world is really possible, I would love to see the day.
There are some people though that I may wish gone in hope of a better world !! But wishes are not horses as they say
2006-12-21 23:44:57 · answer #2 · answered by Vaakshri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no sacrifice. No matter the situation. For I will always exist in the moment of Now where ever I choose to be.
Do I wish for peace world wide? I do not wish for anything , for to do so, is to controll.
To replace a negative controll with a positive controll, is still controll, and this is why sacrifice is the road to war.
I choose to live. Yet wether it is life here, or in the "after-life" it does not matter, for i will always live in the LIGHT of Truth.
The Truth is, Every individual will find there peace, yet each is on there own path of it. One should not tell another to follow them, for they take their eyes off of there own path and then lead both into darkness.
I am at Peace within the Light of Truth and Love.
So too is everyone else, wether they admit it or not.
2006-12-21 17:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by stuart_slider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it meant a truly peaceful world, that is, if it was 100% certain that the world would be at peace, yes, I think I would, and I'd sacrifice a million after-lives also. Well, that is, if I truly believed in an afterlife.
Sounds to me you're trying to convince Christians to let go of their hopes for a paradise on Earth after death in order to gain one on Earth right now. They'd never do it, even if God came down and told them it was true.
2006-12-21 15:43:39 · answer #4 · answered by miss_ursie_la 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After 9-11, I wanted to go under cover, and find Osama Bin Laden, and try to off him. Even if it meant my life, I wanted peace on earth more than life.
I was also in the Navy, willing to fight and die for my country, which I believe is a peace loving country at it's root. We just don't always have a leader with the same altruistic motives.
War is a learned behavior, and it happens to benefit the economic picture in the US. Sad, but true.
2006-12-21 16:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by Lion J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't think my death or anyone's actually makes a more peaceful world. I think that violent death in the name of peace is a fallacy. Some people have misguidedly sacrificed their lives to a cause that actually makes the world worse & perpetuates violence. Asking people to "donate" their lives to a cause is kind of creepy. That's the stuff suicide bombers are made of. I don't think brainwashed martyrs are going to save the world. Not something to aspire to. Usually they hurt others in the process as well. Countless innocent lives lost because of a few misguided souls willing to die for their twisted cause. The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
I don't think martyrdom is the answer (Jesus is one exception. He gave his life to save us from sin. Not that it created peace in the world however. In fact people have been killing each other over religion for centuries. But at least we have the hope of eternal life.)
Those who gave their lives as soldiers lost their lives for war, not peace. I've yet to see anyone die for or from peace.
Just a thought...
2006-12-21 16:09:22 · answer #6 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. The last thing I want is a more peaceful world. Quite the contrary I want a world that is so violent, filled with so much conflict, hatred and aggression that people will FINALLY be allowed to fend for them selves without being penalized for it, or having outsiders tell us when we can defend ourselves, how we can defend ourselves, where we can defend ourselves, why we can defend outselves, with what we can defend ourselves and against whom we can defend oursleves from.
Dying for anything is a waste of time because if you are dead, then that is one less person to fight for whatever that cause was to begin with. Unless by dying you can take a significant number of your opposition with you...then MAYBE. People treat dying for something like some great gesture....it isn't. It is a LAST resort...when you are in a position where you can do nothing else....THEN die...but make it mean something...but never...NEVER allow it to happen of you own free will...never give your life...MAKE them take it...and make the cost as high as possible...that's why I'm still alive...the cost is too high for anyone...
2006-12-21 17:54:36 · answer #7 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No chance. My top priority since I was 25 has been as much peace of mind for myself, as the American modern urban society seems to have no interest in peace of mind.
On the down side, I haven't had much fun in the process, so I've got a lot of fun to catch up on, like decades, before I'd even consider your question.
2006-12-21 17:33:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES, but I do NOT want to do it if I'm being tortured forever in life-after-death by doing this (it is worst than death), I do not hope to be in heaven as well by doing this. There is or not life-after-death not so important, the important is how to make the world better. Good if your action make you to heaven and avoiding hell, but if there isn't life-after-death? You just live in the world like hell.
YES if I can not do nothing to this world, NO if my existance in this world is very important to help other people.
YES because we all die anyway, shorter life but have meaning better than longer life but have not meaning at all.
What the point long life in the world like hell!
2006-12-21 17:19:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some philosphies state that to truly live, one must die within this physical life, meaning that we strip away all that we take to be ourselves - our 9 to 5, our self-image, the "safe, within the box" life, and step out into that unknown, untracked path.
Sacrificing one's safe life in order to be a living beacon of peace would do more in representing what peace would look like than a moment of sacrificing one's physical form.
2006-12-21 16:42:17 · answer #10 · answered by Traveller into the Unknown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutley. the only way to get to peace is thru war. id gladly fight in a war that will make the world a safer place to live. my dad was in the marines and that means so much to me. im 13 and this topic is the most important in my life. id like to thank u 4 asking it.
2006-12-21 15:50:53 · answer #11 · answered by gene9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋